Art for Sandy Relief Effort & Free Comics For Hurricane Sandy Victims

Hurricane Sandy has impacted the lives of thousands of people who have a very long recovery ahead of them. Every time there is a national disaster, hundreds of thousands of people join together and help out those in need. This is a very special event that I want to share with you all – the Art for Sandy Relief Effort.

Rich Ginter, a former Marvel employee who now is employed as a designer for Disney has organized “Art for Sandy Relief,” which is an online auction containing original comic book art and commissioned sketches to raise money for the Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation, a New York City-based charitable organization. Currently, Art for Sandy Relief has listed various auctions on ebay – please click HERE for the items listed.

Additionally, Chuck Rozanski – President of Mile High Comics released a press release stating that he is giving away 10,000 comics – shipping included – to those who lost their comics to Sandy. Please CLICK HERE for more info. Below is the email that can be found on the site.

Free Comics For Hurricane Sandy Victims
 

Howdy!

I want to start off today by thanking everyone who has helped us to keep our sales intact during the disruptions of Hurricane Sandy. Thanks to your generous support, we have been able to maintain our operations even though a significant percentage of our clientele were without power for the past week. That having been said, we are now in a position to begin helping those who were affected by the storm. I am going to start off by offering to give away for free 10,000 of our comics from our reserve stock to those in the path of Sandy who may have lost part, or all, of their personal collections. Send us proof of your losses, and we will help you to replace at least a few of the your comics that were destroyed by the storm. We will even pay the shipping costs of delivering these free comics to your home…

So you know, we already know that this is going to be a difficult program to administer, as we are going to have to first verify claims, and then try to provide individual help based upon case-by case considerations. If you are among those who lost comics in the storm, please feel free to let us know the extent of your losses. Our reserve stocks generally do not contain very many high-demand back issues, but we can definitely help you out with your replacement of runs of issues on many bread-and-butter titles. Receiving a free long box of back issues clearly cannot make up for the devastation you may have suffered, but we do want to help you to the extent that we can.

This same offer of free back issues is available to comics retailers who may have suffered flood damage. If receiving a couple of free long boxes of our reserve back issues and extra TPB’s might help you to get back on your feet, please write to me atchuck@milehighcomics.com. I will gladly help you, just as so many other have helped us to overcome unexpected difficulties in the past.

My only other news note for today is to let everyone else who reads this newsletter know that I am changing the name of our current 30% off codeword sale on all of our back issue comics and magazines to SANDYRELIEF. A percentage of the funds received from this sale will help us to cover the costs of shipping the free comics to the folks in the Northeast who present claims to us. If we continue to receive additional support through SANDYRELIEF, I will add another 10,000 of our reserve comics into our contributions.

Sincerely,

Chuck Rozanski,
President – Mile High Comics, Inc.
November 2, 2012

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